PROFESSIONAL MASTER PROGRAM IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT SPECIALIZED IN CONSTRUCTION (MPM) Intake 2013

PROFESSIONAL MASTER PROGRAM IN

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SPECIALIZED IN CONSTRUCTION (MPM) Intake 2013

Introduction

 The Project Management in Construction field of study trains professionals to play a leading role in the international construction industry. It molds students to become active leaders in the construction industry and large construction project.  The program prepares for students:

-    To become outstanding managers and decision-makers familiar with the modern techniques  of construction management, engineering management and infrastructure management.

-    To more competent and capable to manage international large construction projects

-    To be able to assist the corporation to install and develop project management system in a company

 Main Features of the Program

•       One year professional AIT Master’s degree.

•       Credits can be accumulated over two years

•       Certificate course works

•       International field trip to the large construction sites in the region

•       Study language: English.

Program Structure

 AIT Professional Master Program is designed for those engineers who cannot leave their work while following a master program. The program is conducted in one year. To complete the master program, participants need to complete 11 courses and 1 project report with total 33 credits.

In the first two semesters, students will take basic and advanced courses selected in consultation with an academic/thesis advisor from among the regular courses offered at AIT. During the third semester, students will carry out their project study. Students will conduct international field trips:

-          First trip: Study at AIT

-          Second trip: visit to the large construction sites outside Vietnam, such as Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, China and Taiwan or do internship in AIT Thailand

-          Third trip: to AIT to attend Graduation ceremony

AIT certificate can be given for those students who would like to register for a course offered of the AIT Professional master program. Credits gained from certificate courses can be transferred to AIT Professional Master Program.

English Entry Requirement

 AIT is an international institute with English as the sole language of instruction. Admission to AIT requires proof of English language proficiency which may be satisfied in any requirement of the following:

·                     IELTS (4.5)

·                     TOEFL (Paper -based: 500; Computer - Based:173; or Internet - based: 61)

·               AITEET. Applicants can apply for English Test offered by AIT at AIT-VN. English Test fee:  420,000 VND.

Entry Requirements

 To be eligible for admission to the AIT Professional master's program, an applicant must:

·              Hold a Bachelor degree (normally from a four-year program), or its equivalent, in an appropriate field of study.

·                     Have undergraduate grades significantly above average.

·                     Have good command of English

·                     At least three year of working experiences

Application form can be downloaded at www.aitcv.ac.vn . Application submission fee:  420,000 VND. This fee is paid to AITCV when applicants submit the application documents.

Teaching Schedule

 The program is conducted during non-working hours (weekends and evenings)

Faculty  

 Faculties are from Construction Engineering and Infrastructure Management (CEIM) program – AIT and professional experts from industry. CEIM is highly experienced in project management education, from short training programs to master programs, doctoral programs and post-doctoral programs. So far, there are more than 300 masters and 12 doctors graduated in Project Management program and more than 500 trainees from short training programs received certificates offered by CEIM. CEIM also have its strong partnership with government’s construction organizations and industrial zones in providing consultancy services and professional researches to enhance the quality of construction projects.

For AIT Faculty’s profile, please refer to www.set.ait.ac.th/ceim

Curriculum

No	Code	Course
Core course:
1	CE70.12	Organizational Management in Construction
2	CE70.21	Integrated Project Planning and Control
3	CE70.11	Project Cost and Financial Management
4	CE70.44	Communication and Negotiation skills for Project Managers
5	CE70.33	Safety and Health Management in Construction
6	CE70.22	Legal and Contractual Risk Management
7	CE70.43	Project Financing
8	CE70.13	Quality Management
Applied Project Management courses
9		Applied PM in Construction Business and Project  Simulation
10		Applied Project Management in Highway Projects
11		Applied PM in High-rise Building Projects
12		Applied Project Management in Housing and Real Estate Projects
13		Applied Project Management in Commercial Projects
14		Applied Project Management in Public Infrastructure Projects
15		Applied Project Management in Petrochemical Project

English Training Program

 AIT-VN  will conduct 8 weeks intensive English Training for those who need to improve their Academic English Skills before joining the program. The English Training Program also guides participants how to conduct AITEET.

Language

The program is conducted in English

Admission Schedule

For Hanoi & HCMC

Intake	August 2013
Deadline for application	31 July 2013
Deadline for Interview & Test AITEIT	Any time
Intensive English Training	19 March 2013
First class	September 2013

 Tuition and Fees

Tuition and fees can be paid as 3 installments and at the beginning of each semester. Total tuition and fees: VND 284,285,625 (VND7,824,375/credit). Break down of tuition and fees is:

1. Registration fee:                      VND 10,432,500

2. Tuition fee for 1st semester:   VND 93,892,500

3. Tuition fee for 2nd semester:  VND 86,068,125

4. 1^st International fieldtrip fee:  VND 15,648,750

(8 days, 7 nights)

5. Tuition fee for 3rd semester:   VND 78,243,750

6. 2^nd and 3^rd Int. fieltrip fee:      VND 32,340,750 ^(*)

* Optional for 2^nd and 3^rd trip. Fee includes: air ticket, transportation, insurance and accommodation.

** R.O.E = 20,865 VND/1 USD. AIT reserves the right to apply the adjust tuition and fees without prior notice.

 Contact:

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Asian Institute of Technology in Viet Nam Ha Noi Office		Asian Institute of Technology in Viet Nam HCM Office
Mr. Tran Anh Tuan		Ms. Nguyen Le Tuong
Tel: (84-4) 37669493 (131)		Tel: (84-8) 39107423 (117)
Cell: 01 285 687 168		Cell: 01 285 265 168
Email: anhtuan@aitcv.ac.vn		Email: ngletuong@aitcv.ac.vn

Quality Assurance System of Vietnam to Manage Public Infrastructure

In recent years, Vietnam has been undergoing a very rapid and drastic economic and managerial reform so as to approach the world integration. For a developing country from the poor and long past agriculture like Vietnam, construction is obviously required as the tidal force to build stepping stones. In fact, construction is account for about one – third of gross capital formation to any economy in transition. It is reported that expenditures on infrastructure construction in Vietnam have increased by 6.4%, from US$17.1 million in 2004 to US$18.2 million in 2005. From 2005 to 2009, the volume of investment in infrastructure is estimated to increase two times. More and more, the Asian Development Bank had sanctioned loans worth US$997.5 million to the government for deploying activities in transport and energy, leading to active growth in infrastructure spending over the past few years. It is the vigorous construction of key infrastructure that has laid an essential foundation for the development of the country.

Furthermore, the rate of urbanization is supposed to increase from 26.5% in 2005 to 31.6% in 2015. However, the development also reveals a deficiency of human resources’ capacity and technology to assure the quality of construction works. The number of accidents at construction sites and poor-quality infrastructure works has reached alarming figures. It is reported that accidents in construction, transport and industry projects make up the major proportion of labor accidents causing deaths in Vietnam. In 2008, the figure was almost 30% but it increased sharply to above 50% in 2009 (MOLISA). Occurrence of serious construction accidents or even the collapse of some large-scale infrastructure has caused huge financial and human loss and cast doubt on the reliability of construction works. Especially, when the public infrastructure is mentioned, it involves in the control and reputation of the government. Hence, enhancing construction quality assurance and labor safety is one of the top concerns of leaders of Ministry of Construction and concerned agencies.

Mr. Le Quoc Anh made a case study aimed to: (i) study the current quality management regulation in Vietnam; (ii) discuss the strength and weakness of quality control & quality assurance system in Vietnam; and (iii) study and analyze the application of this quality in a project

Conclusion

 As playing an important role in construction management, the quality assurance system of Vietnam government is supposed to audit and certify the quality of public infrastructure in the true and actual fact, not in theory or paperwork. As a developing country with the economy in transition and the huge volume in fundamental infrastructure construction, Vietnam is calling for the foreign investment, even in the state owned works, so the legal framework of Vietnam is hoped to become comfortable and integrated with the common playing – ground for all inbound and out bound investors. A transparent legal framework can assure the quality of construction from the commencement to the finish.

On the analytical base, it can be seen that the quality of construction works in Vietnam has been influenced by many factors, happening in every phase of construction process or commission process. Human or non-human factors have both direct and indirect influence on the quality of construction works.

Besides, the legal system in Vietnam has overlapped among regulations related to the quality. Vietnam government makes law impractical, resulting in complicate mending or misunderstanding application, even contrary among construction units.

Recommendation For Ha Noi – Hai Phong Expressway Project

The VIDIFI recommendations that can be proposed are as follows:

1. Increase the activeness for supervision consultancy unit by assigning the right and acceptance for regular works or categories. No need to wait for the acceptance from the investors.

2. The investors and the consultants cooperate to review all project standards to restrict risks if material or design changes.

3. Request contractors to change construction methods properly with new standards.

His thesis abstract is copied and posted below.

Abstract

In recent years, Vietnam has been undergoing the very rapid and drastic economic and managerial reform so as to approach the world integration. For a developing country from the poor and long past agriculture like Vietnam, construction is obviously required as the tidal force to build steeping stones. In fact, construction is account for about one – third of gross capital formation to our economy in transition. However, the drastic and rapid development in Vietnam also reveals a deficiency of human resources’ capacity and technology to assure the quality of construction works. The number of accidents at construction sites and poor-quality infrastructure works has reached alarming figures. Hence, enhancing construction quality assurance and labor safety is one of the top concerns of leaders of Ministry of Construction and concerned agencies. This paper focuses on studying quality assurance system (framework) of Vietnam government aiming to manage public infrastructure projects. Throughout the study, the strength and weakness of the system can be pointed out to discuss lessons learnt so that recommendation for improvement of the legal framework can be demonstrated.